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Chapter 2. Installing the MTA extension for Visual Studio Code

You can use the Migration Toolkit for Applications (MTA) Visual Studio (VS) Code plugin to perform a standard application analysis. You can also enable Red Hat Developer Lightspeed for the Migration Toolkit for Applications (MTA) to use Generative AI (GenAI) capabilities to fix code issues before migrating to target technologies. Note that Developer Lightspeed for MTA is enabled by default. For more information, see Configuring and using Developer Lightspeed for MTA.

Prerequisites

  • You installed the Java Development Kit (JDK). MTA supports the following JDKs:

    • Oracle JDK 17 or later
    • Eclipse Temurin™ JDK 17 or later
    • OpenJDK 17 or later
  • You have 8 GB of RAM available.
  • For macOS installation, you have the value of maxproc set to 2048 or greater.

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